About the cover:

Bound in full mid-blue goatskin, with leather-jointed hand-coloured machine-made endpapers and doublures. All three edges are rough gilt; the book is sewn onto a stub, is rounded and backed, has hand-sewn endbands and laced-on laminated paste boards. The binding is gold-tooled across the cover using a series of pallets and small irregularly shaped finishing tools. The binding is signed and dated on the inside of the rear cover and is housed in a cloth-covered drop-back box, with a blocked leather title label on the spine.

About the content:

Philippe Jaccottet: Cherry Tree

‘Le cerisier’, translated from the French by Mark Treharne.

The Delos Press, Birmingham 1991 Philippe Jaccottet undertakes a journey of reflections on dreams, imagination, nature and how the changing light causes his mind to make many connections to memories of the past.

About the artist: Tracey Rowledge is a visual artist who also specialises in the applied art of bookbinding. She grew up in Surrey and graduated from a Pre BA Foundation course with Distinction from Epsom School of Art & Design. This was followed by undergraduate studies at the University of London Goldsmiths' College (Fine Art), and finally the Guildford College of Further & Higher Education, Fine Bookbinding & Conservation Diploma also gaining Distinction.

She has participated in many competitions and exhibitions with great success, where she has usually been placed in the top ranks. In the last 10 years she has travelled to many countries as a guest lecturer, e.g. San Francisco, cbl Ascona, Holland, Sweden, West Greenland, Ireland and across the UK.